I try to open this svg file as attached, which is one of my circuit class design. It will be good to open it in illustrator and do some modification, however, I could open the file with firefox and chrome, but my illustrator 5.1 opens it as blank page. Anyone has the same issue before, or it is just some basic setting problems?

I was successful in getting it into Illustrator via a circuitous route. But for something like this, I would simply redraw it. While the text is editable, each bit of text is broken into one to three character lengths.

If you want it in AI format, I'll upload it. But overall, I would recommend just redoing it.

Sure. PagePlus opened the SVG linked to above intact. From there, I exported as a PDF file. That opens just fine in Illy.

I had a more convuluted path into Illustrator originally. If one opts to Open the PDF, there is no clipping mask nor groups. If it is Placed, one needs to ungroup, release the clipping mask and then all is well.

PP doesn't have an option for SVG export. If it did, it would work fine. The other path I went was to import into Xara Designer Pro and export out of it as an SVG which in turn opens in Illy. But as the goal is to edit it in Illy, it doesn't matter what form it comes into Illy.

I was working in PP when I did the original import / export. DrawPlus, another Serif software, opens the SVG and exports an SVG that Illy can open--one of the SVG export options is to make the SVG Illustrator compatible.

To me, aside from your question as to how it was created, is why doesn't Illy open a wider range of SVG flavors? I mean, DrawPlus can be had for incredibly cheap. It can do it, why cannot Adobe? And it also amazes me InkScape also cannot open it without issues.

Anyway, without the OP answering how it was created or by what application, your question isn't going to be answered--and mine likely won't ever be.

Can you please how you have created this SVG , it says <!-- Generator: cds2svg.il --> , what is cds2svg .

Hi guys,

Thanks for spending time with my "strange" svg file, and give me many good suggestions. So this file is from some scripts in linux I would assume (not written by me), because basically it transfers the schematic (circuit design software called cadence virtuoso) to svg file to help us show the schematic properly. I'll check with the guy writting the script to see how he makes it and update this discussion.

Strange thing is I could open this file fairly well in visio (under windows 7), and do anything I want.

Visio can also save out as SVG...would it work for you workflow to simply open them in it, resave out as a new SVG for altering in Illy if needed? But then, if you can edit it in Visio for your needs, I would just use it. Anything else is extra work.

Visio can also save out as SVG...would it work for you workflow to simply open them in it, resave out as a new SVG for altering in Illy if needed? But then, if you can edit it in Visio for your needs, I would just use it. Anything else is extra work.

Take care, Mike

I'll try whether lily will work with the file saved as svg in visio, but you are right, why not just use visio for my work...